This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews
that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist
Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov--an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary document, a story about the
extremes of human behavior existing side by side: calculated brutality alongside
impulsive and selfless acts of love. I find it hard to imagine anyone who would
not be drawn in, confronted and moved. I would recommend it unreservedly to
anyone, whether they'd read a hundred Holocaust stories or none.--Graeme
Simsion, internationally-bestselling author of The Rosie Project
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew,